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Stick-type Incendiary Bomb Removed from the Konrad Repository Premises

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Salzgitter – When looking for warfare agents on the premises of the future Konrad repository in Salzgitter, a so-called stick-type incendiary bomb weighing approximately two kilograms has now been found for the first time.

The found stick-type incendiary bomb was located approximately 50 metres beside the K 39 industrial road and lay about three metres deep in the soil. Meanwhile it has been removed into a storage facility. In the vicinity the warfare agent tracing service additionally detected the empty launcher pipe of a bazooka.

The removal of warfare agents is a requirement included in the plan-approval decision on the erection of the Konrad repository the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) is in charge of. The repository will probably be taken into operation in 2014.

State of 2009.03.31

Transfer of operator responsibilities

On 25 April 2017, the operator responsibilities for the Asse II mine as well as the Konrad and Morsleben repositories were transferred to the Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, BGE). Previously, the responsibility for the projects was with the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS). The foundations for the change of operatorship are laid down in the "Act on the Realignment of the Organisational Structures in the Field of Radioactive Waste Disposal", which became effective on 30 July 2016. The BfS focusses on the federal tasks of radiation protection, for example in the field of defence against nuclear hazards, medical research, mobile communication, UV protection or the measuring networks for environmental radioactivity.

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